Trial By Error: Call for Retraction of Cochrane Review from Science For ME; Overview of Viral Persistence in Long Covid; Senators United on Long Covid
By David Tuller, DrPH Sometimes I just like to post about a few things that have caught my interest, for whatever reason. I keep meaning to do this more regularly. Science For ME calls on Cochrane to retract flawed exercise review The Science for ME (S4ME) forum has posted a petition on change.org requesting that … Trial By Error: Call for Retraction of Cochrane Review from Science For ME; Overview of Viral Persistence in Long Covid; Senators United on Long Covid Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 7, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized cochrane exercise review tim kaine Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Just the Latest Gibberish from Professor Chalder
By David Tuller, DrPH I’ve said it before and will undoubtedly say it again. Trudie Chalder, King’s College London’s mathematically and factually challenged professor of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), is a one-trick pony. She writes what is essentially the same bad paper based on the same unfounded assumptions over and over again. Her apparent professional … Trial By Error: Just the Latest Gibberish from Professor Chalder Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 4, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT chalder inflammatory bowel disease Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Professor Chris Ponting Discusses on DecodeME ’ s First Results
By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Chris Ponting is a geneticist at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the principal investigator for DecodeME, a genome wide association study. The DecodeME team recently published findings from more than 17,000 questionnaires it had collected from patients. I wrote about those findings in a post last week. In … Trial By Error: Professor Chris Ponting Discusses on DecodeME’s First Results Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 31, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Chris Ponting DecodeME Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: DecodeME Team Describes Study Sample; The Atlantic ’ s Ed Yong Covers PEM; STAT Busts NIH ’ s Stumbling Long Covid Efforts
By David Tuller, DrPH DecodeME paper finds ME/CFS severity linked to being female, being older and being sick longer DecodeME is a high-profile genome-wide association study (GWAS) that is seeking to identify DNA differences between people with ME/CFS and those without it. To date, more than 17,000 people in the UK who report having been … Trial By Error: DecodeME Team Describes Study Sample; The Atlantic’s Ed Yong Covers PEM; STAT Busts NIH’s Stumbling Long Covid Efforts Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 24, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Ed Yong STAT Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Rapid Response to Anti-NICE Whine de Coeur; UK Government Seeks Input to Interim Delivery Plan for ME/CFS
By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry (JNNP) has finally published a cogent rapid response to its recent whine de coeur from the PACE authors and their cronies. In the commentary, the co-authors criticized eight purported “anomalies” they believe occurred during the process of developing the 2021 ME/CFS guideline from Britain’s … Trial By Error: Rapid Response to Anti-NICE Whine de Coeur; UK Government Seeks Input to Interim Delivery Plan for ME/CFS Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 15, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized JNNP MEAction UK UK ME/CFS plan Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: More on the Perplexing Dutch Claim that Null Results for Objective Measures of Physical Activity Are Irrelevant to Fatigue
By David Tuller, DrPH I recently wrote about a Dutch study published a few months ago in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases–“Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Severe Fatigue Following Coronavirus Disease 2019: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.” The study, nick-named ReCOVer, found that unblinded trials relying on subjective outcomes will produce modestly positive reports … Trial By Error: More on the Perplexing Dutch Claim that Null Results for Objective Measures of Physical Activity Are Irrelevant to Fatigue Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 9, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT CBT/GET dutch Knoop Long Covid Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: That Whine De Coeur about NICE ’ s Rejection of GET/CBT Regimen, and ME Action UK ’ s Disappearing Rebuttal
By David Tuller, DrPH On July 10th, the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry (JNNP) published what can only be called a whine de coeur from a bunch of academics and investigators on the wrong side of a dispute with Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Their article was called “Anomalies in … Trial By Error: That Whine De Coeur about NICE’s Rejection of GET/CBT Regimen, and ME Action UK’s Disappearing Rebuttal Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 3, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized FND JNNP NICE Source Type: blogs
Why Do Some Viruses Have a Seasonal Cycle?
by Gertrud U. Rey Have you ever wondered why some viruses circulate primarily in the winter and others are more prevalent in the summer? Although we don’t have a clear answer to this question, a combination of factors is likely responsible. Work done in the field of respiratory viruses suggests that these viruses can … Why Do Some Viruses Have a Seasonal Cycle? Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 3, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey absolute humidity airborne transmission direct contact enterovirus indirect contact relative humidity respiratory droplets respiratory viruses seasonality temperature Source Type: blogs
Investigating the Secrets of Cancer-Causing Viruses
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Mandy Muller.
While she was in graduate school, Mandy Muller, Ph.D., became intrigued with viruses that are oncogenic, meaning they can cause cancer. At the time, she was researching human papillomaviruses (HPVs), which can lead to cervical and throat cancer, among other types. Now, as an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst, Dr. Muller studies Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), which causes the rare AIDS-associated cancer Kaposi sarcoma.
A Continental Change
Dr. Muller has come a long way, both geographically and professionally, s...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Infectious Diseases Microbes Profiles RNA Viruses Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Psych Medicine ’ s Rejects Request for Correction of Prevalence Rates Cited in FND Paper – Updated
By David Tuller, DrPH UPDATE: Not long after I sent the letter repeating our request for a correction, I received a response directly from Professor Murray, the editor-in-chief of Psychological Medicine who had commented on the length of our initial request for a correction. Here it is: From: Robin Murray Date: Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 9:02 AMSubject: … Trial By Error: Psych Medicine’s Rejects Request for Correction of Prevalence Rates Cited in FND Paper–Updated Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 20, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Dutch Team Offers “ Dog-Ate-My-Data ” Excuses for Not Reporting Null Objective Findings
By David Tuller, DrPH Two months ago, Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID), a high-impact journal, published a study called “Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Severe Fatigue Following Coronavirus Disease 2019: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.” The study, nicknamed ReCOVer amd conducted in the Netherlands, purported to provide the “first evidence for the positive effect of … Trial By Error: Dutch Team Offers “Dog-Ate-My-Data” Excuses for Not Reporting Null Objective Findings Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 11, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized actigraphy CBT Hans Knoop Long Covid Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Update on Efforts to Correct False Statements about FND Prevalence
By David Tuller, DrPH I have continued writing my letter-writing effort to alert journals about papers on functional neurological disorder (FND) that have included false statements regarding the prevalence of the condition reported by a seminal study in the field the reported prevalence of the condition. (I was going to refer to this as a … Trial By Error: Update on Efforts to Correct False Statements about FND Prevalence Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 9, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized corrections david perez FND functional neurological disrder Source Type: blogs
Why We Can ’ t Eradicate Polio
by Gertrud U. Rey In 1988 the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention passed the initiative to eradicate polio globally by the year 2000. We are now 23 years past this deadline, and it is increasingly clear that this goal will likely never be achieved. Smallpox … Why We Can’t Eradicate Polio Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 6, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey Albert Sabin asymptomatic infection childhood vaccination eradication fecal-oral route gut immunity inactivated poliovirus vaccine IPV jonas salk local immunity nOPV2 oral poliovirus vaccine paralysis Source Type: blogs
Why We Can ’ t Eradicate Poliovirus
by Gertrud U. Rey In 1988 the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention passed the initiative to eradicate polio globally by the year 2000. We are now 23 years past this deadline, and it is increasingly clear that this goal will likely never be achieved. Smallpox … Why We Can’t Eradicate Poliovirus Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 6, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey Albert Sabin asymptomatic infection childhood vaccination eradication fecal-oral route gut immunity inactivated poliovirus vaccine IPV jonas salk local immunity nOPV2 oral poliovirus vaccine paralysis Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: My Twitter Thread about Slate ’ s Piece on Long Covid and Mental Illness
By David Tuller, DrPH Slate recently ran a piece by a young journalist and Stanford neuroscience graduate student, Grace Huckins, about purported links between long Covid and mental illness. I found it problematic. For one thing, in the same sentence it linked to both a story of mine in Codastory.com and one from The Atlantic‘s … Trial By Error: My Twitter Thread about Slate’s Piece on Long Covid and Mental Illness Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 5, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Knoop Long Covid Netherlands slate Source Type: blogs
